The Radical Mindfulness Coders Transforming Reality
In the hazy backroom lairs of a Toronto tech incubator, an underground nexus of rebel neuroscientists, programmers, and philosopher remnants is secretly building a new kind of operating system. Not just for our laptops and smartphones, but for the core biomechanical hardware driving our minds and overall human experience.
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While the mainstream Mental Betterment-Industrial Complex continues peddling apps, wearables, drugs, and self-help that merely put glossier filters over the same old psychological malware, this under-the-radar crew of consciousness hackers has been lairing up, heads down, in VR headsets and bodyshop garages, machining a deeper solution.
“The entirety of the anxiety, depression, and existential dread cycles we’re culturally mired in didn’t spontaneously arise — it’s an emergent property of the core ‘mind virus’ our psychologies and paradigms for experience are infected with,” explains Mark Percillian, the 37-year-old autodidact software engineer who kickstarted the under-the-radar Mind Reboot project.
“So we’ve been systematically backcoding and reverse-engineering a grassroots alternative to the Western individual self-schema that’s been making us sick.”
It sounds like the paranoid ramblings of an Unabomber-esque manifester scrawling manifestos in a mountain bunker, right? Yet a growing network of cognitive neuroscientists, psi-researchers, theologians, psychedelic elders, and renegade psychonauts has discretely thrown in with Percillian’s grassroots recalibration campaign.
We are working ceaselessly to patch up the implicit experiential frameworks that may be bugging our collective consciousness.
Their core hypothesis? Western society’s excessive focus on isolated individualism—an “I” separated from everything and everyone else—has hard-coded a sort of dysfunctional root virus into the human mind. By overcorrecting for that pernicious malware, we can experience a revelatory reboot and “de-bugging” of our entire psycho-phenomenological matrix.
“We’re not saying the concept of individuality is inherently bad or deluded,” explains psychologist Dr. Ringo Diaz, who left his post at ETH Zurich to join Mind Reboot’s secretive development hubs. “But this extreme subjective self-encapsulation we’ve grown so attached to? That’s been the source code propagating all the sickness, alienation, and dissociative pathology troubling our psyches.”
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To rewrite the toxic code saturating our mental operating systems, Mind Reboot has developed an ambitious multi-pronged toolkit utilizing cutting-edge neurofeedback technology and psychophysiological retraining programs. Elements include:
• Open-source EEG rigs and neural mapping software that allow you to actually visualize your brain’s core interpretive frameworks and implicit biases around individuality. Witnessing the specific cognitive knots in 4D.
An immersive virtual reality environment called “NormaTerraZed” is designed to experientially download new paradigms of interconnectedness and self-other integration into one’s neural networks.Photo by Ofspace LLC on Unsplash
• A digital overlay UX called “EXOformation” that continuously reminds the user of their interwoven relationship with surrounding contexts. Promoting a recovery of the “transindividual self” that precedes our modern isolated constructs.
• “State Release” workshops and psychedelic ceremonies provide transformative peak encounters with unitive, non-dual consciousness states to radically destabilize the individualist operating system.
• password-protected online communities and anonymous real-world hubs for mind rebooters to support each other and more seamlessly inhabit these new psycho-phenomenological frameworks.
Taken together, it’s a bold, almost sci-fi vision for reprogramming the root code of human subjectivity towards a radical, expansive new model of interdependent selfhood.
“Look, we’re not just tech wizards winging it here—we’ve deeply studied the contemplative traditions of the East, along with lineages of non-dual mysticism and the boundaries of analytic idealism,” Percillian says. “We realize the revolutionary potential of truly abiding in a non-atomized self, free of dissociation and fragmentation.”
Those ancient non-dual wisdom traditions of Buddhism, Sufism, Indigenous animisms and more all point to a potential “decentering” from the prison
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